03433oam 2200697I 450 991097073150332120251117102911.09786612454387978131709978913170997889781315594187131559418897812824543851282454382978075469989707546998979781317099796131709979610.4324/9781315594187 (CKB)3810000000076437(Au-PeEL)EBL4523508(CaPaEBR)ebr11506461(OCoLC)1022780217(OCoLC)953046818(FINmELB)ELB139537(MiAaPQ)EBC4523508(BIP)116719892(EXLCZ)99381000000007643720180706e20162010 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMasculinity in four Victorian epics a Darwinist reading /Clinton Machann1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (166 pages)"First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.9781032929187 1032929189 9780754666875 0754666875 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Tennyson's Arthur and manly codes of behavior -- 3. Barrett Browning's construction of masculinity in Aurora Leigh -- 4. Clough's ambivalent Victorian manhood -- 5. Browning's chivalrous Christianity -- 6. Conclusion.Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring and the Book, Clinton Machann brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic. This critical approach enables Machann to take advantage of important research in evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, among other scientific fields, and to bring the concept of human nature into his discussions of the poems. The importance of the Victorian long poem as a literary genre is reviewed in the introduction, followed by transformative close readings of the poems that engage with questions of gender, particularly representations of masculinity and the prevalence of male violence. Machann contextualizes his reading within the poets' views on social, philosophical, and religious issues, arguing that the impulses, drives, and tendencies of human nature, as well as the historical and cultural context, influenced the writing and thus must inform the interpretation of the Victorian epic.English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureNarrative poetry, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Narrative poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.821/.809353Machann Clinton.1801815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970731503321Masculinity in four Victorian epics4347210UNINA